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Courts & crime, 1934

8,976 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

Stabbed When She Smiled Story Of A Lovers' Quarrel Told In Court Good Friends

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

THE story of a lovers' quarrel was told at Redfern Court yesterday, when Alfred Norman Horsey, 23, was charged with…

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Gossip From Everywhere a Justice Of The Peace Who Isn't -- Twenty-five Cigars a Day -- Changes In The Navy -- Soothing By Singing -- Diggers' Anonymous Friend Sympathetic Magistrate

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 13

FOR the second time in the history of Queensland, a woman presided alone when Jean Salisbury, J.P., of Dalby, dealt with a charge of…

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Policeman Who Wanted More Work To Do! Making It Harder for the Criminal New System Of Motor Patrols Idle Police Stations Closed Down

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 10

CHANGING conditions and fast motor transport have made the criminal a problem to be tackled only with up-to-date methods. Slow-moving foot and mounted police are at a definite disadvantage; consequently the N.S.W. Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) has been…

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Explosives Stolen Police Warning

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 14

"TRUTH" has been asked by the Police Department to publish the following warning:— "Some time during Friday night or…

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Wagga Murder Charge (From "Truth's" Wagga Representative.)

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 15

EDWARD HENRY MOREY (38). on remand on a charge of having maliciously and feloniously murdered Percy Smith at Wagga on or about December 16, was again before the Wagga Court on Wednesday. Sergeant Archer asked for a remand for eight days, informing Mr. R…

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Emotional Storms Sway Packed, Tense Crowds in Coroners Court Bombshell of Son to Smash Mothers Defence Charge of Husband-murder

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 10

A TRAGIC, worn-looking wisp of a woman telling a spellbound court how her husband had shot himself... one of her sons throwing a bombshell into the proceedings by saying his mother had told him to confess that he had killed his dad as she said he would get only two or…

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Said They Were Sweethearts Pretty Girl's Story Man Charged with Perjury

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 15

SWEARING that they had once been sweethearts, Hilfred Grace Moss, a pretty Petersham packer, gave evidence at the…

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"Dummies" Serve Gaol Terms Fingerprint System Endangered Latest "Business Deal" of Law-breakers

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 22

NUMBERS of men are being paid to go to gaol. IT has now been revealed that for a long time starting-price bookmakers and other offenders have been securing dummies to do their terms of imprisonment…

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Nurse Had Morphia Pitiful Case in Court

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 13

A SAD case of a nurse said to be suffering from morphia addiction occupied the attention of Mr. Stevenson, S.M., for a…

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Police Will Watch Motorists in Campaign Against Jay-walkers

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 2

The jay-walker, against whom the police will launch a campaign on February 1, is not to have all the attention…

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SINISTER Threats By Black Hand Police Finds Brisbane

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 25

REVELATIONS made since the sensational shooting of De Salvo at Mourilyan two weeks ago show that he was by no means…

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60 EXHIBITS, 60 WITNESSES Double Murder Case Sensations Bones, False Teeth Wellington (N.z.), Sat

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 12

IT is now announced that the sensational hearing of the double murder charge against William Alfred Bayly, farmer…

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Fate Plays Cruel Jest Aged Mother's Sorrow Lost Son, Other Faces Murder Charge Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 14

One moment an aged woman was proudly but sorrowfully showing a portrait of her son, who had been accidentally killed at Castlemaine, but a…

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Tragic Triangle of Saxton Grange Horror Groom's Infatuation for Mistress Blazing Car Murder Reveals Deception Of Dead Man's Trusted Wife

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 16

ONE of the most dramatic and terrible stories of guilty passion and fiendish crime ever related in an English court of law is that of the Saxton Grange murder, for which Ernest Brown, a groom, was sentenced to death at Leeds Assizes, just before Christmas. The sinister triangle, of which the base is jealousy and the apex death, was drawn on this occasion about…

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Big Brawl Brewing Over Broadcasting Move to Murder Poor "Mike". Sportsmen Will Pulverise Bloke Who's Pinching Percentages What Happened at Stadium

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 6

A BRAWL is brewing over the broadcasting of boxing and other sports, and developments are expected at any tick of the clock. PROFESSIONALS engaged in the several sporting…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 6

Queen's—square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.: For hearing; Jose v Simpson; Haillday v James; Darragh v Fcrq, Casson and Co., Ltd.: Bolot v Baifsky; Dean v…

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Sale of Sheep Drover Charged With Stealing

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 9

John Edwin Fitzgerald Burns, 22, drover, was charged before Mr. Pickup, P.M., at Liverpool Court on Friday with stealing 84 sheep valued…

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Theft of Opals. Owner's Nephew Charged. LONDON, Jan. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 9

How 1665 opals, valued at £416, were discovered in attache cases was related at the Clerkenwell Police Court, where Frank Charles Lockwood, 29, an opal merchant, formerly of…

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Assault Charge

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 5

Coming to the aid of two girls, who allegedly were being molested by a man in Glebe Road, Glebe, early this morning, Bert Knowles, 35, of Glebe Road, Glebe, was knocked…

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Charge of Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Ernest Victor Clanfield, who was shot at Alton Downs on Tuesday, died on Saturday night, and later the police preferred…

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